Content is important. That's the message that Tara Hunt, author and social media speaker, hammers home in capital letters in a blog post today. Hunt makes good points for companies that are considering
After announcing it would scrub its Web site monitoring business at the end of last year, Toronto-based Verelo Inc. has been acquired by Manchester, N.H.-based Dyn.Dyn, which also offers Web infrastructure services in
In two years, will ignoring a tweet be seen as rude by your customers as ignoring a phone call would be today?That’s what the Egham, U.K. division of consultancy firm Gartner Inc. is
Verelo reminds us that nobody loves you when you're down. When your Web site is down, that is.Any business that relies on a Web site to deliver their service or as a point
If you have an office or a retail store, you may also have a security system that to alert you and the police in case of a break-in--or a webcam set up to
Vancouver-based social marketing and analytics developer Strutta Media Inc. is partnering with Norway-based Meltwater Group, the companies announced this morning.Meltwater Group is a business-to-business, software as a service (SaaS) company that offers media
The FBI today said that its proposed plans to monitor social media sites as part of a broader strategy to improve real-time situation awareness will be fully vetted by the agency's Privacy and
by Claudiu Popa Talk to anyone in the world of business about their biggest hacking fear and you’re bound to hear that “embarrassment” ranks right up there near the top. Everyone knows that
David Alston is listening, and he can hear you talking on the Web's social networks.The chief marketing officer at Radian6, the Fredericton, N.B.-based social media monitoring firm purchased in March by Salesforce.com for
Most users are satisfied with the hard drive utilities that ship with Windows--especially the more powerful partitioning and defragging tools found in Windows Vista and 7. Since you're reading this, though, you're obviously
Do you know what your employees are doing on the Web? At a minimum, they're probably goofing off watching YouTube videos. At worst, they could be steering your company toward financial ruin. In
The smart grid – an enhanced electricity delivery system that promises to improve reliability, reduce costs and facilitate the use of alternative energy sources – is in its infancy. But Canadian companies are
It's 9:00 in the morning, or 3:00 in the afternoon, or even 10:00 at night. Do you know what your users are up to?More than ever, IT managers can answer "Oh, yes" to
Yes, the truth is out there. But they don't want you to know about it. Who's "they"? It could be Google or product manufacturers, your boss or your wireless carrier, Hollywood or Uncle
